Did God Really Say?

Did God Really Say?

One of Satan’s best questions is “Did God Really Say?”. It was the one which brought about the original sin in the Garden of Eden – Genesis 3:1 “Now the snake was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden”?’ “ Yes He did is the answer. There are several other issues just like this where Satan has caused the world to stray far from the Word of God.

There are many ‘abominations’ in the Bible that are regarded as ‘old-fashioned’ or out-moded, or even plain wrong nowadays. Satan is forever asking well meaning but misinformed people, “Did God Really Say?” about things the Bible tells us are so very wrong and which, for generations past, were matters of serious religious or legal offence.

Things like Homosexuality - Leviticus 18:22-23 “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” And bestiality - Leviticus 18:23 “Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.” (See also Romans 1:18 & 1 Corinthians 6:9 & Galations 5:19)Yet such things are permitted, even approved, today. God’s Word says in Genesis 2:24 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.”

Practices of transgender and cross dressing are allowed today but are a disgrace before God – Deuteronomy 22:5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.”

Trading standards measures, especially as used against the poor and the destitute – Deuteronomy 25:13-16 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.  You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.  For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.”

Those who wrongly and unjustly judge Proverbs 17:15 “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.”

These are just a few of many examples but many more are written into the canon of scripture.  And in answer to the original question, YES God really did say these things and we ignore or reverse them at our peril.

Church, don’t be fooled by the world; do not listen to their immoral mutterings about God and His out-of-date moral laws. The day you do that is the day you step onto a very slippery slope headed toward the very place you are urging people to avoid – hell.

Yes, seriously, those who defy, deny, or ignore the Word of God are treading a path to Hell because the things they are tinkering with and changing are the very things that are an abomination to our Holy and just God. It is a matter of rebellion for us to defy a Holy God and rebellion, even in the worlds eyes, has always been a punishable offence, even today, in some places, punishable by death.

These are serious matters that the Lord takes very seriously indeed. We trespass here at our peril.